How to Encrypt or Decrypt in Mule Runtime Using Jasypt

Currently there is no direct approach to encrypt or decrypt using the jasypt library however the Java Invoke component can be used to achieve this functionality.  The code snippet is as follows, and a simplified application is attached here.

<java:invoke doc:name="Invoke"
        doc:id="fa000ded-xxxxx-1f8a8a6a693e"
        instance="configurationEncryptor"
        class="org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEStringEncryptor"
        method="encrypt(java.lang.String)">
            <java:args><![CDATA[#[arg0: attributes.uriParams.value]]]></java:args>
</java:invoke> 
...    
<java:invoke doc:name="Invoke"
        doc:id="c60b5098-xxxxx-86b5b6cbc789"
        instance="configurationEncryptor"
        class="org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.StandardPBEStringEncryptor"
        method="decrypt(java.lang.String)">
            <java:args><![CDATA[#[arg0: attributes.uriParams.value]]]></java:args>
</java:invoke>